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J. ARKELL (No Model.)

PAPER BAG.

No. 325,147. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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JAMES ARKELL, OF OANAJOHARIE, NEN YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ARKELL & SMITHS, OF SAME PLACE.

PA P E R B A G.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,147, dated. August 25, 1885.

Application filed Septemln r 13, 1884. (N model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: 1 To make a bag from a blank of the form Be it known that I, J AMES ARKELL, of Canashown at Fig. 1, and supplied with paste,as dejoharie, in the county of Montgomery and scribed, and preferably preliminarilycreased State of New York, haveinvented certain new on the lines indicated, I should proceed as 5 and useful Improvements in Paper Bags; and follows! Fold on the line 1 the lower portion I do hereby declare that the following isa full, of the blank and double it upon itself lengthelear, and exact description thereof, reference wise of the sheet, and bring the blank into being had to the accompanying drawings, the condition illustrated at Fig.2. Next fold making part of this application. on the line 2 and bring the parts (I I) a I) face 1c My invention relatesto certain new and useto face, with the pasted portions one and 7/00- ful improvements in paper bags of the kind inciding, and the blank willthen bein the conknown as bellows bottom bags, and to that dition illustrated at Fig. 3. Then fold on the species having a seam in the bottom and one line 3 and turn over the pasted flap 0 down onside seam only; and it consists in certain feato and secure it to the portion 1), as represent- 5- IS tures of structure, which will be hereinafter ed at Fig. 4. In making this last fold it will more fully described, and particularlypointed be understood, of course, that the triangular out in the claim of this specification. portion 0 of the flap c is also turned over In the drawings which accompany this apagainst the portion 1), and is confined between plication and form part thereof, Figure 1 is a the latter and the flap 0 when these parts shall 20 plan view of a preferred form of blank from have been pasted together.

which to make abag embodying myinvention. The finished bag (shown at Fig. 4) is now Fig. 2 is a similar view of the blank after the preferably, though not necessarily, creased iii-st folding operation toward the making of obliquely along the dotted lines at 4-, to facilia bag. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank snbtate the opening out of the bag into squaresequent to the second folding operation. Fig. bottom form. 4 isa like view alter the third andlast fold has It will be seen from Figs 4 and 5 that by been made. Fig. is a perspective view of folding and pasting a blank of the form shown the bag-bottom opened out, and looking at the at Fig. l (which is the best form now known interior thereof; and Fig. 6 is a plan view of to me) in the manner described a bag is pro- 30 the exterior surface of the bottom of the bag duced with a bellows-bottom, which may be spread out as in condition for use. opened out or distended in square or rectan- In the several vlews the same letter of refgular form, and which has two seams,oncat the erence indicates the same part. middle of the bottom of the bag and the other A, Fig. 1, is the blank, (of paper or other at one side only thereof. A bag of such consuitable material,)which is preferably creased struction may be readily and cheaply made along the lines 1, 2, and 3,tofacilitate folding, by machinery, as will be clearly understood as well understood, and which is supplied by those skilled in the art to which myinvenwith suitable adhesive matter along the nartion relates. row flap-like portion a, at the extremity of The employment of the flap c in the struct- 0 one of the longer sides of the sheet, and also me is to insure a tight joint at that side of along the edge or edge portion, 5, of one of the the bottom 01" the bag adjacent to the flap a;

shorter sides of the sheet, but on the opposite and it will be seen that, by reason of the side or face of the blank, as seen at Fig. 2. oblique or slanting cut from the line 1 to the A portion of the stock of the blank is relower edge of the blank, the flap 0' provided 45 moved from the flap-like portion 0 from at is of such a shape that the flap 0 may be about a point opposite the line 1 to the lower pasted onto the side I) from end to end, thus edge of the sheet, as shown, and the remainavoiding the necessity of any separate pasting triangular portion, 0, of flap c, from line 1 ing operation for the flap c, and thus produc to the bottom edge of the blank, is preferably ing a bag of the kind referred to in which 50 not supplied with paste or other adhesive there is a less quantity of paste and paper at matter. that corner of the bag at which the side flap is located than in any bag made heretofore, so far as my knowlenge extends.

' The flap c, it will be understood, may be of other shape than that shown, so long as it is of less width for all for a greater portion of its length than the width of the closing-flap c, and is overlapped by the latter in the side seam of the bag.

It will be seen that a bagbottom made according to my invention is composed of only one thickness of paper throughout its whole extent, excepting at the locality of the mid dle seam, (which latter is composed of two thicknesses of paper,) and a bag so constructed may be readily opened out or distended in square form, and will present a neat and perfect bottom.

The blank may have its paste applied either while in a perfectly open condition, as at Fig. 1, or in a partially-folded condition, as at Fig. 2, and if done while in the lastnamed state the triangular portion 0 may be conveniently pasted simultaneously with the side flap, 0,- but, as before intimated, there is no actual neccssity to paste this supplemental portion a,

as the pasted flap 0 overlaps it when folded down onto the part or side I) of the bag.

The method herein described and illustrated of making the bag forming the subject of this application is disclaimed in this case, as said method is claimed by me in aseparate application.

Having now so fully described my invention that those skilled in the art to which it appertains may make and use bags involving the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A bellows-bottom bag having a seam at the middle of its bottom, and a side seam composed of the part b and flap c, and having also a supplemental flap c, which is of less width than the flap c, and which is located between the latter and the part Z), all substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this th day of September, 1884.

JAMES ARKELL.

In presence of- S. L. FREY, WILLIAM N. SMITH. 

